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Albeit I’m no employment law expert, I’m heating up the popcorns to watch the legal dispute of the year: Uber vs English Law.

On one side, UK Law clearly tells freelancers from workers in terms of guarantees, rights and duties, while, on the other, Uber cherry-picks features of both figures to mix them in its own cocktail of a kind.

“All the chickens come home to roost”.

For the records, by means of an appeal, Uber can still extend its licence by some months.

Waymo (read Google) states that the proprietary information is clear within Uber’s project.

Uber admitted that when Lewandowsky started its new role at Uber, he had 5 disks of information from Google.

Uber admitted its CEO knew about Lewandowsky bringing proprietary information to Uber, but still denies responsibility and alleges that Uber asked the engineer to desist from bringing such proprietary information.

The question of whther Uber is a transport or an IT company is highly important as it can determine, mong the others, the applicable authority, not to mention the appeal to investors ( see Facebook and its advertisement business being self-branded as Tech).

The Attorney General within the EU jurisdiction) decided that Uber qualifies as a transport company.

Finally a good news for fair employment in Europe! Uber is declared as a service equal to taxis and, therefore, subject to the same requirements and licenses, according to Maciej Szpunar, AG at the EUCJ after a lawsuit against Uber in Spain.

Once and for all, Uber is not a Tech commpany at all! It’s a transport commpany, therfore subject to its authorities and regulation.

It will take 8 months of roll-out, but AirBnb and HomeAway will give San Francisco access to their database, in order to check whether litings comply with local rules by being registered with the city.
In Frisco’s case, having landlord renting out to travellers, does reduce the range of options for locals looking for new accomoation.

In case of breach, both ocmpanies will be notified by the city and compelled to delist a given accomodation.